Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate all of you being here today, and I certainly appreciate your testimony and your answers so far.
I have questions for both Mr. Dungate from the Chicken Farmers and Ms. Widowski, if there's some time.
I want to hear a little bit more, Mr. Dungate, about your animal care program. I know you talked about it a bit in your presentation. You indicated that about 80% of farmers are currently certified under that program and about 95% receive full audits. I think you mentioned that seven different provincial boards have now made the program mandatory.
You did give some information about it, but I wonder if there's a bit more you could tell us as a committee about that program and exactly how the implementation is going. You said that seven provinces have made it mandatory now, so that would obviously indicate a few provinces have not yet signed on. Tell us why that might be and what you're finding the differences are in the provinces where it's mandatory and where it's voluntary.